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This is what Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, suggested in a speech at the company's Google Cloud Next conference on Wednesday.<p>"I think big data is so powerful that nation states will fight over how much data matters," he told attendees.<p>"He who has the data can do the …

Looking to be the next leap forward in data organization, computation, and delivery for big data Databricks, the business built on top of the popular Apache Spark open source project, has raised $60 million in new financing.<p>Taking the route mapped by so many big data companies before it, Databricks …

A few years ago, a young man named Kyle Behm took a leave from his studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was suffering from bipolar disorder and needed time to get treatment. A year and a half later, Kyle was healthy enough to return to his studies at a different university. …

<b>By Dayna Sessa</b><p>If analyzing numbers makes you anxious, relax. A majority of the value you gain from data comes from things you already do as a savvy business person.<p>I waited eagerly for my daughter to turn six months old and sit independently so my husband and I could begin bringing her to a …

Microsoft Excel is an amazing piece of software, and even regular users might not be getting as much out of it as they can. Improve your Excel efficiency and proficiency with these basic shortcuts and functions that absolutely everyone needs to know.<p>Of course you can move from cell to cell with …

No matter what your job is these days, it’s always helpful to have coding knowledge in your toolbox. But if you’re not interested in going back to school and you have very little time to dedicate towards picking up a new skill, choosing what, when and how to develop your programming chops is a task …

In many of H.P. Lovecraft's stories, an adventurer stumbles across something he shouldn't have — a mysterious cavern, an ancient city under the sea, a strange cave full of secrets. And though these hidden places are always filled with terrors, curiosity pushes the adventurer onwards into darker, …

<b>(CNN) —</b> Even after his mom died, Jeff Almer bought a Mother's Day card splashed in pastels and bearing the sweetest of words. He tucked a photo of his mother inside the card and addressed it to Stewart Parnell, the man who owned and ran Peanut Corporation of America.<p>Inside, Almer wrote: I did not …

Recently I wrote about how marketing executives need to be both entrepreneurial and tech-savvy. It might be enlightening to look more closely at the “tech” that marketers need to be savvy about.<p>The ubiquity of digital technology offers a level of interaction with consumers that yesterday’s …

A new paper employs a simple technique—counting words in patent texts—to trace the history of American invention, from chemistry to computers.<p>One night in the the spring of 1983, the scientist Kary Mullis was driving with his girlfriend along Highway 128 from Berkeley to Mendocino, California. As …

Gambling addict tells of destruction wrought in a terrifyingly short time by fixed odds betting terminals – and battle to change his life<p>It took Tony Franklin just 59 minutes to squander £3,500 on high-speed, high-stakes gambling machines in his local Coral bookmakers. Losing the money was …

Shortly before 9/11, officials foresaw a fundamental shift in the nature of power.<p>Nine months before the September 11 attacks—and just days after the Supreme Court halted the Florida recount, handing the presidency to George W. Bush—U.S. intelligence officials published an 85-page prediction for …

Three years after the start of its new Science Without Borders program, Brazil isn't the only country benefitting.<p>Vinicius Munaldi Lube is from Vitoria, Brazil, a small city on the southeastern coast, about 300 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. He studied wood engineering, the discipline of using wood …